Sermon Tone Analysis

// Quick Questions

Did Adam & Eve have a belly button?

Why are boys so annoying?

Annoying: to irritate or make someone a little angry

To be annoying you are basically changing or affecting someone's emotional state in a negative way.

To be annoying you are basically changing or affecting someone's emotional state in a negative way.

The bible says that we should love even our enemies, so although boys are annoying we should still be nice to them.

The bible says that we should love even our enemies, so although boys are annoying we should still be nice to them.

// Leader Panel

How can I tell if God is wanting me to do a certain thing?

God knows everything about everything, but my knowledge is limited and can't see things the way He does.

Prayer -

​ ESV5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Compare to the Bible - God will never ask you to do something that is in opposition to His Word.

God will never ask you to sin or hurt someone else.

​ ESV105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

​ ESV16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Question: is this helping others or my relationship with God, it’s probably safe to say it’s from God.Be Still - - wait for the Lord to give you direction

Question: is this helping others or my relationship with God, it’s probably safe to say it’s from God.Be Still - - wait for the Lord to give you direction

How do I get over sexual abuse?

Forgive Them

Forgiveness is NOT saying, “this is okay”

​ ESV21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?

As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

​ ESV14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

It’s Not God’s Fault

Forgiveness is NOT saying, “this is okay”

​ ESV8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

It’s Not God’s Fault

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​ ESV24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

By his wounds you have been healed.

​ ESV17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

How to get over liking people of the same gender even if you don't want to because you know it's wrong?

Where are these thoughts coming from?

​ ESV7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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​ ESV3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

How do you forgive someone when they've hurt you really badly and can't face them?

​ ESV19 We love because he first loved us.

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- steps to forgiveness

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GAME BREAK

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// Teaching Questions

How to get over trust issues?

Start where you can trust - God

Trust is the foundation of any healthy relationship

​ ESV31 What then shall we say to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

​ ESV5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Defined: Reliance on and confidence in a person or thing

Trust is the foundation of any healthy relationshipDefined: Reliance on and confidence in a person or thingTrust can be broken when what we rely on is not where we expect it

Trust can be broken when what we rely on is not where we expect it

Trust Fall Fail VIDEO

To build trust, take it one step at a time.

No need to break down you walls and boundaries all at once.

Start off slowly and work your way to a closer relationship.

You have to start by allowing at least one person in those walls.

What if you only have one friend?

Look at Jesus, He had at least three friends that we close to Him

we are relational beings and at our core we desire to have relationship with other (we were made in God’s image and God is a relational being)

The enemy has a game plan called SKD (steal, kill, destroy)

The best way to destroy an enemy is to get them alone or as close to alone as possible

​ ESV10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to get them alone or as close to alone as possible

We weren’t meant to do life alone and having a support system is key to staying healthy.

​ ESV9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow.

But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?

12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

having a strong and encouraging support system is even better!

We weren’t meant to do life alone and having a support system is key to staying healthy.having a strong and encouraging support system is even better!

How do you know when someone is really your friend?

Touched on this in SQUAD a few weeks ago

Do they gossip to you or about you?

Do they speak encouragement?

Are they generous and loving?

Do they speak the truth in love to you?

A real friend is always going to put you before them and vice versa - you should want to be serving you friend.

if someone is constantly pulling from you, your resources, you time, etc; they are using you

Why is the Bible so controversial?

In one part it will say, You are all one in Jesus Christ, but in another part will say that men are higher than women?

The Bible can seem to contradict itself in different places, but keep in mind the Bible was written over a thousand years by different people in different cultures.

As Bre established, woman was made as a helper, HOWEVER we are all apart of the body of Christ

Body parts that seem weaker or unnecessary may appear that way, but wait until it gets hurt, then it’s a big deal, right?

​ ESV12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.

15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing?

If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require.

But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

Body parts don’t serve themselves, they serve the whole body!